"Debian vanilla is mid": the hot take that reignites the distro war
An opinion piece published this week reignites an old debate: is pure Debian still worth it compared to its derivatives? A dissection of a critique that hits a nerve.
11 h ago 7 0
Revive your old Intel Mac with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Apple has cut support for modern macOS on the entire Intel generation. A community project - OpenCore Legacy Patcher - allows you to run Sequoia on it. Why attempt it, and what's holding it back.
12 h ago 10 0
A Haskell enthusiast switches to AI, the community lynches him
A recognized contributor to the Haskell scene publicly explains why he now codes with AI. Reaction: social banishment, hate mails, and the community rediscovering its own slogan.
12 h ago 11 0
Thinking Machines publishes a 975-billion-parameter "open weights" model
Mira Murati, former CTO of OpenAI, releases a frontier model with open weights from Thinking Machines - something her former employer has been promising for years without delivering.
12 h ago 10 0
Torvalds cuts it short: the Linux kernel will not be an "AI-free" space
On the LKML, Linus Torvalds cut short the controversy in one sentence - contributors who refuse any code touched by AI only need to fork. What this technically says about how open source will live with LLM.
12 h ago 18 0
GPT-5.6 Sun wipes out production: one year after Replit, the coding vibe falls into the same hole
An AI coding that executes `rm -rf` on the production database, this wasn't supposed to happen again after the Replit fiasco. It just happened again, several times, with GPT-5.6 Sol.
12 h ago 11 0
Thirty years later, the original PlayStation gains 8× its RAM thanks to a community mod
While the industry worries about the global DRAM shortage, the retro-hack scene offers the PS1 an unexpected birthday gift: a mod that multiplies its memory by eight, opening the door to ports that were unthinkable until now.
11 h ago 10 0
Qantas: 5.7 million records stolen via a simple call to technical support
No exploits, no 0-day: the massive data breach at Qantas started with a phone call to the outsourced call center. Anatomy of an old-school "vishing" compromise, and why it remains the weak link in 2026.
12 h ago 14 0